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Title: Bancroft's Works History of the Northwest Coast vol 1
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Subjects: history
Publisher: San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft and Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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n Captain Anza wrote fromthe Gila of a report of the natives that a branch of iG Reasons to shew, that there is a great Probability of a Navigable Passage tothe Western American Ocean, through Hudsons Streights and Chesterfield Inlet.London, 1749. 47 De risle, Explication de la Carte, Paris, 1752. I take a copy from thatpublished in 17G1 by Jefferys in Mutters Voy. Asia to Arner. It is also inMarchand, Voy., pi. iii. It will be noticed that California is correctly laiddown, and that the Russian discovery of Chirikof, in which the authorsbrother participated, is shown, but not that of Bering, in the same expedi-tion. Coats, Geog. ITudnon Bay, 37, 1751, says: These Miscota Indians tellus some visionary storeys of ships and men of a different make and complcctionfrequenting there shores (Winipeggon Lake), for they arc positive this lake isopen to westward; and do attempt to describe their gilded beeks, and sails,and other matters, both tedious and tiresome, without we had better grounds.
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De lIsles Map, 1752. EARLY SAILING DIRECTIONS. 129 the Colorado ran westward and northward, making thesuggestion that that branch might terminate in SanFrancisco Bay, seems to have been the last phase ofthe theory that California was an island; thoughthose were not wanting in even later times who frompure negligence repeated the old representations intheir text and maps.48 In 1757 the great work of Venegas on Californiawas published by Padre Burriel, a most intelligenteditor, who devoted one of the three volumes toappendices on voyages of exploration and on the geog-raphy of the far north. In one sense Burriel was thefirst writer—if we except Cabrera Bueno, who hadpublished accurate sailing directions of the coast fromCape Mendocino southward49—to take common-senseviews on the subject, to reject the apocryphal voyagesas wholly unworthy of credit, to restrict northerngeography to actual discoveries, and to correctlymap, in print, the peninsula and the regions of theColorado and Gil

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